Introduction
Ofer Lahav FRAS FInstP is Perren Chair of Astronomy at University College London (UCL).His research area is observational Cosmology. He served as the Head of Astrophysics (UCL) 2004-2011,as Vice-Dean (Research) of UCL's Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences2011-2015, and as Vice-President of the Royal Astronomical Society 2010-2012. Lahav chairs the UK Consortiums of the Dark Energy Survey and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), as well as the DES Advisory Board. He is a member of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Science Board, and Co-Director of the STFC Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Intensive Science. From 2012 to 2018, Lahav held a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant on "Testing the Dark Energy Paradigm" (TESTDE programme).
Education
Lahav studied Physics at Tel-Aviv University (BSc, 1980), Physics at Ben-Gurion University (MSc, 1985) and earned his Ph.D. (1988) in Astronomy from the University of Cambridge, where he was later a Member of Staff at the Institute of Astronomy (1990-2003) and a Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge.
Research
Lahav's research is focused on cosmological probes of Dark Matter and Dark Energy, in particular large galaxy surveys. As of 2019 Lahav has co-authored over 400 research articles in peer reviewed scientific journals, including 10 invited review articles and book chapters. Lahav is a Thomson ISI highly cited author, h-factor 83. His past doctoral students include Chris Lintott.